Occasional musings from a Left-coast Canadian ExPat in Oxford.
This housesitting thing has been really nice. Housesitting I have my laptop, a cat, tv, food, beer, books. Back at home I have a high strung roommate, clutter, papers to be filed, bills to pay, laundry to iron and fold. I also left the house in a state of really needing to be dusted, vacuumed, … Continue reading Homey
Starting tomorrow, I’ll be off for 2.5 weeks, housesitting for dearheart and her fiancee while they zip halfway around the world so she can suck up to her future mother-in-law (kidding! I’m sure there’s no sucking up necessary!). Although I won’t be far from home, I don’t plan on returning to my apartment to replenish … Continue reading Procrastinatrix
Thanks to going hardcore with the extracurricular activities, I’m in a world of hurt today. It’s the hurts-so-good kinda hurt, but still… ow. So why is it that I’ve been sitting around whining since about 8:00am, and just now (at 3:37pm) realized that hey, maybe I should take some Advil? Obviously because I am a … Continue reading Ouch.
Shortly after I finished ranting and raving at one of my best friends the other day, he looked me dead in the eyes and said: You are such a GIRL. Have I taught you NOTHING? It was just the kick in the teeth I needed to finally make me realize what a chump I am … Continue reading The Apathy has Taken Over Me
My life has been consumed by wanderlust. If anyone needs a ride somewhere in the next little while, I’m still excited enough about being able to actually GO PLACES with relative EASE AND COMFORT that I’ll probably take you almost anywhere for the low, low price of gas. Yes, I know that with the price … Continue reading Driving Miss Daisy
I’ve been having issues lately with the time-space continuum. Mostly when it comes to remembering what day it actually is when I wake up in the mornings. And this happens EVERY MORNING – only the names of the days change. My internal dialogue goes something like this: Alarm: *midi of Knight Rider theme* Brain: MOTHERFUCKERI … Continue reading I know it ends in “Y”…
I’ve just realized that I left my email client open at home. There it is, happily chugging away downloading all my messages every 5 minutes and promptly deleting them from the server. So I can’t check my personal webmail accounts ALL DAY (despite the fact that all I really get on it is blog comments, … Continue reading Uh Uh the Email